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Vakmanni R.
(Rudolf Vakmann, 1894-1937)
Estonian revolutionary. Took part in the failed 1924 Estonian coup d’état (1. detsembri riigipöördekatse) for which he was definitively thanked in 1937 during the Great Purge. The coup, designed to set up an ESSR with help from the Russian Soviet Comintern, aka Third International, was partially hindered by the November 1924 Trial of the 149 removing a significant proportion of its numbers (see Tombi J.). Two of Vakmann’s brothers were caught and executed during the coup. Soviet occupation renaming (1959-1991) of Kauka.
Veimeri A.
(Arnold Veimer, 1903-1977)
Communist – oxymoronically – economist. Head of the Stalinist puppet state (1944-1951). Enabled the 1949 ‘March Deportation’ of some 20,000 mainly women, children, infants and babies critical of the regime to Siberia. Awarded “Hero of Socialist Labor” in 1973, Order of Lenin three times, etc. Soviet occupation renaming (1981-1995) of Kivila.
Luise (Luise)
After the nearby summer estate called Luisental, after Louise von Steinheil, owner in 1791. By this time, France was on its 16th King Louis, and the name had had plenty of time to become fashionable.
Lembitu (Lembit[u])
Lembit of Lehola: Estonian leader in fight against German Brethren of the Sword, died during Battle of St. Matthew’s Day, September, 1217. Poem written by Kreutzwald. The modern man’s name is without the ‘u’ in the nominative.
